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Facebook 3.0 now available

Facebook and iPhone fans can now get the latest social networking app, after Apple has made the facebook 3.0 app available in the App Store around the globe.

The new update brings with it a wealth of new features including a grid view to better manage your social networking life, and the ability for iPhone 3GS users to upload video directly to the site.

Users will be able to get the new version from the iPhone or the App store within iTunes, however Apple has yet to update the cache making many people still see version 2.5.

A full feature list includes:

- See your upcoming Events and RSVP

- See your friends’ birthdays

- See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer

- Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes

- Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS

- Upload photos to any album

- Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)

- Change your Profile Picture

- Zoom into photos

- Like posts and photos

- See the same News Feed as the Facebook website

- Visit links in a built-in web browser

- See all of your friends’ friends and Pages

- See mutual friends

- Easily search for people and Pages

- Make friend requests

- Become a fan of Pages

- Quickly call or text your friends

- Create shortcuts to your favourite friends and Pages

- Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings

- Chat friends sorted alphabetically

Have you downloaded it yet? Let us know what you think.

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Facebook 3.0 now available originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:52:01 +0100